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Ernest Pedapati, MD, MS, FAAP

  • Assistant Professor, UC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Board Certified

About

Biography

Dr. Pedapati specializes in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disease associated with ASD, genetic and other neurodevelopmental disorders including interdisciplinary treatment planning and advanced medication management. Prior to his faculty appointment, he had clinical and research training under Craig Erickson, MD, and pediatric transcranial magnetic stimulation under Donald Gilbert, MD, MS.

In 2013, the PI was successful in designing and obtaining IRB approval and competitive funding for a TMS project through the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Pilot Research Award and currently completing the study, "Cortical Plasticity in Adolescent Depression" which attempts to use TMS to determine whether abnormal neuroplasticity can be quantified in adolescent depression.

In his final year of residency, he applied and secured a highly competitive institutional mentor career development award (Procter Scholar) to support 90% time dedicated to independent research activities including obtaining preliminary data on TMS measures of cortical plasticity in ASD and the development of an implicit false belief task of social cognition for future TMS modulation. In addition he continues to be an active subinvestigator extensively contributing to NIH R01 project examining TMS measures of motor physiology in ADHD pioneered the use of SICI as a biomarker in ADHD and measurement of cortical plasticity in healthy youth. 

MD: University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, 2009.

Residency: Pediatrics/Adult Psychiatry/Child Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Certification: Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics.

Interests

Neurodevelopmental disorders; autism spectrum disorders; fragile X; genetic disorders; schizophrenia

Services and Specialties

Neurology, Psychiatry, Tuberous Sclerosis

Interests

Transcranial magnetic stimulation; transcranial direct current stimulation; TMS; TDCS; EEG; autism; fragile x; eye tracking; electrophysiology.

Research Areas

Neurology, Psychiatry

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Publications

Selected

Impaired perceptual learning in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome is mediated by parvalbumin neuron dysfunction and is reversible. Goel, A; Cantu, DA; Guilfoyle, J; Chaudhari, GR; Newadkar, A; Todisco, B; de Alba, D; Kourdougli, N; Schmitt, LM; Pedapati, E; et al. Nature Neuroscience. 2018; 21:1404-1411.

Using head-mounted eye tracking to examine visual and manual exploration during naturalistic toy play in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Yurkovic, JR; Lisandrelli, G; Shaffer, RC; Dominick, KC; Pedapati, EV; Erickson, CA; Kennedy, DP; Yu, C. Scientific Reports. 2021; 11.

Sex differences in resting EEG power in Fragile X Syndrome. Smith, EG; Pedapati, EV; Liu, R; Schmitt, LM; Dominick, KC; Shaffer, RC; Sweeney, JA; Erickson, CA. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2021; 138:89-95.

Motor cortex modulation and reward in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Detrick, JA; Zink, C; Rosch, KS; Horn, PS; Huddleston, DA; Crocetti, D; Wu, SW; Pedapati, EV; Wassermann, EM; Mostofsky, SH; et al. Brain Communications. 2021; 3.

Brief Report: Intranasal Ketamine in Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder-Initial Results of a Randomized, Controlled, Crossover, Pilot Study. Wink, LK; Reisinger, DL; Horn, P; Shaffer, RC; O'Brien, K; Schmitt, L; Dominick, KR; Pedapati, EV; Erickson, CA. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2021; 51:1392-1399.

Can We Push the "Quasi-Perfect Artifact Rejection " Even Closer to Perfection?. Miyakoshi, M; Schmitt, LM; Erickson, CA; Sweeney, JA; Pedapati, EV. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 2021; 14.

Recent Advances in the Pharmacological Management of Behavioral Disturbances Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Lamy, M; Pedapati, EV; Dominick, KL; Wink, LK; Erickson, CA. Paediatric Drugs. 2020; 22:473-483.

Early behavioral and developmental interventions in ADNP-syndrome: A case report of SWI/SNF-related neurodevelopmental syndrome. Shillington, A; Pedapati, E; Hopkin, R; Suhrie, K. Molecular genetics & genomic medicine. 2020; 8.

Examination of Correlates to Health-Related Quality of Life in Individuals with Fragile X Syndrome. Coffman, MC; Shaffer, RC; Schmitt, LM; Dominick, KC; Pedapati, E; Wang, A; Berry-Kravis, E; Tartaglia, N; Erickson, CA. Brain Sciences. 2020; 10.

Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) in Fragile X Syndrome. Fitzpatrick, SE; Schmitt, LM; Adams, R; Pedapati, EV; Wink, LK; Shaffer, RC; Sage, J; Weber, JD; Dominick, KC; Erickson, CA. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2020; 50:1056-1063.

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